3 struck, one critical after shooting

STOCKTON - Three people were wounded, one critically, in a midday shooting Thursday in central Stockton, authorities said.

Jason Anderson

STOCKTON - Three people were wounded, one critically, in a midday shooting Thursday in central Stockton, authorities said.

Police and paramedics responded to the scene after gunfire erupted outside a home in the 1200 block of Oak Street about 2:40 p.m. When they arrived, they located three gunshot victims.

According to witnesses, a 22-year-old woman was shot in the back, a man was shot in the left arm, and another man sustained a grazing wound to his side. Two of the victims were taken to hospitals for treatment, said Officer Joseph Silva, a spokesman for the Stockton Police Department. The female victim was listed in critical condition, Silva said.

The man who was grazed by gunfire said he and the other victims were walking west to a house on Oak Street when they were confronted by a man in a white vehicle.

"He was like, 'What's up?' and we just kept walking," the man said. "Then he came back around the corner and said 'What's up now?' and he just started shooting."

A woman who was walking with the victims said the gunman got out of the four-door vehicle and opened fire on them as they stood on the front porch of a home on Oak Street.

She said the shooter was a black man in his 20s with a thin build, a white shirt, khaki shorts, a red hat and possibly a shaved head.

"He said, 'What's up? What's up?' and then he started shooting," the woman said.

Christine Boaz, who was driving east on Oak Street toward Airport Way when the shooting occurred, described what she saw in her rearview mirror.

"I saw somebody get out of the car with a gun, and he was just standing in the middle of the street shooting," she said. "It was very frightening."

One of the bullets went through a window and a wall before traveling through a bedroom where a baby was sitting in a car seat on top of a bed, witnesses said.

The gunman then got back into the car, which was occupied by a female passenger, and fled south on Airport Way from Oak Street, witnesses said.

Boaz said she went back to check on the victims before emergency responders arrived.

"I saw a lady down on the ground," Boaz said. "I asked her if she was OK, and she just shook her head."